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pissement: urination; pissing
pissenlit: dandelion
pisser: to piss; to pour with (some liquid)
pisser dans son froc: to piss oneself (to be very afraid)
pisser le sang: to bleed profusely, to bleed everywhere, to gush blood
pisseur: pisser (one who pisses)
pisseuse: female equivalent of pisseur; young girl
pissevin: A shoot of intermediate length
pissière: a body of water? a dam? a lavatory?
pissière: synonym of poitrail (“(armor for) a horse's chest”)
pissoir: bog, john; urinal
pissotière: public urinal
pistache: pistachio (nut); peanut
pistachier: pistachio (shrub)
pistage: tracking; retrace
pistard: track cyclist
piste: track or trail (left by an animal or person); track (road or other similar beaten path); lead, hint (e.g. in a police investigation); runway; track (on a recording)
piste courte: short track (type of speed skating)
piste cyclable: bicycle path, bike path, cycle path, cycle lane, bikeway; cycle track, bike trail
piste d'atterrissage: landing strip, runway (strip for airplanes to land on or take off from)
piste de danse: dance floor
piste verte: beginner slope (a ski slope for inexperienced skiers, who may not have skied before)
pister: to track (an animal); to track (a person)
pisteur: tracker (one who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game)
pistil: pistil
pistole: handgun, pistol; pistole (coin)
pistolet: gun, pistol; spray gun; weird person
pistolet de détresse: flare gun
pistolet à air: air pistol
pistolet à clous: nail gun (electrically or pneumatically powered gun used to drive nails into a surface)
pistolet à impulsion électrique: taser (electroshock stun gun)
pistolet-mitrailleur: submachine gun
piston: piston; contact, connection
pistonner: to put in a good word for somebody, to pull strings for somebody (apply influence)
pistou: pistou (cold sauce made from cloves of garlic, fresh basil, and olive oil)
pisé: adobe
pitance: pittance
pitaya: pitaya, dragon fruit
pitbull: pitbull (pit bull, “dog”)
pitch: pitch (sales patter, inclination)
pitchpin: pitch pine
piteusement: piteously; miserably
piteux: pitiful; rundown; piteous
pithiatique: pithiatic
pithiatisme: pithiatism
pithécanthrope: pithecanthropoid
pithécanthropique: pithecanthropic
pithécanthropiquement: pithecanthropically
pitit: alternative spelling of petit, child
pitié: pity, mercy
piton: nail (metal object); spike, pick (especially for mountaineering)
pitonner: to piton
pitou: doggie; puppy
pitoune: buckwheat pancake; felled log ready to be floated to the mill; stunner; bimbo
pitoyabilité: the state of inspiring pity
pitoyable: pitiful; pathetic, contemptible
pitoyablement: pitifully, pitiably; pathetically
pitre: clown, buffoon
pitrerie: tomfoolery
pittacale: pittacal